In pursuit of some answers to the question: why do ‘we’ (a Western ‘we’) abhor nature?, this project examines the roots of the “flight from nature” in the common experience of being subject to a mother. The multidisciplinary project involves an eventual hybrid performance in the fall of 2019, supported by collaborative research with performance artists and dance artists (current phase involves Vancouver-based contemporary dance-artists Lucas Wilson-Bilbro and Avery Smith); interviews with men about their mothers; and academic writing and research about desire, subjectivity, and the possibilities of love, friendship, and community built on the ashes of a culture with a deeply troubled, often denied relationship to maternity.